Abstract:
This data set consists of the following files: 1. PRBcensus.xls ---------------- This self-explanatory excel (v97, Windows) file contains census counts of 26 taxa of planktonic foraminifera in the two coretop samples from box cores PRB-07 and PRB-12 as well as counts for the top 24 cm of box core PRB-12. These two cores were added to the 738 coretop database of Pflaumann et al [1996]. Details ... on these cores are in Table 1 of the paper:

2. Train_test_partitions.zip ----------------------------------- A set of files containing the training and test partitions of the 740 coretop dataset. Each file name is a code indicating what it contains.

3. PRB-12_predictions.xls ------------------------- This self-explanatory excel (v97, Windows) file contains SST reconstructions in core PRB-12 using the various computational techniques described in the paper.

4. V2559_predictions.xls ------------------------ This self-explanatory excel (v97, Windows) file contains SST reconstructions in core V 25-59 using the various computational techniques described in the paper. see page 522: Planktonic foraminifer census data from the low latitude core V 25-59 (Figure 1; 1º22'N, 33º29'W) were used to assess the differences in SST reconstructions among the techniques when applied to this fossil dataset, presumably containing many no-analog samples. The original dataset by McIntyre et al. [1989], comprising 45 species and species groups, was culled to include only the taxonomic categories used in the database of Pflaumann et al. [1996].